Guest zaphod Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 amazed no one mentioned this (tokyo story): for that matter all of ozu's pre 1960 work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 no one mentioned On the Waterfront...I don't really love it as a film, but - Brando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 oh and then some really ubiquitous shit like rules of the game, the apu trilogy, the seventh seal, sunset boulevard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Apu Trilogy good call...think most of the others were on pg1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spptrl alt del Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_a_Movie_Camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 The Thief Of Bagdad (1940) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Them! (1954) The Apartment (1960) To Be or Not to Be (1942) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) It Happened One Night (1934) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerWaschbar Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 also if you like scifi but think most of it from this era sucks (and you would be right) check out Forbidden Planet, and if you have a blueray player or HD TV check it out in HD, it's one of the best looking transfers i've ever seen Definitely give this one a go. I think it's the first or at least one of the first films to have an entirely electronic soundtrack and all of it made with concrete arrangements of the death rattle of circuits designed to die, also ring modulation. My all time favorite movie is 'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' from 1947. Really strong, intelligent female lead character, great performance by Rex Harrison. I cry so hard at this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 fuk.ol.xa.hatrs lot to be learned from this one. (and to say nothing of the graphic design!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 fuk.ol.xa.hatrs lot to be learned from this one. (and to say nothing of the graphic design!) Ivan The Terrible parts I and II, the last films Eisenstien made before his death, are excellent as well. I took a class on Soviet films in college and ended up writing a lengthy paper on both his and Vertov's (Man With The Movie Camera) use of Montage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_a_Movie_Camera Besides making this and pushing the concept of documentary film-making to the limits, Vertov experimented extensively with the idea of making novel sounds in the 1920s - juxtaposing human voices with music, noises of nature and machines, and then recording those combinations. It was all Soviet futurism brainstorming at the time - but he was literally thinking about musique concrète before it existed, before audio tape was invented, and way, way before the ideas of sampling and plunderphonics. I think the only examples recorded are on this album, which I've been meaning to acquire. He moved to film because he was actually able to make his visions and ideas come to live. That's why Man With The Moving Camera is so rhythmic and meticulously edited - it was meant to encapsulate more "reality" than any film before it. It's mind-blowing that it was made in 1929. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 The Seventh Seal 1957Animal Farm 1954Anatomy of a Murder 1959Black Orpheus 1959Apart from You 1933Criterion has some nice collections&reviews, for instance 1950shttp://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?b=Criterion&dec=1950s&p=1&pp=25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Early German horror/scifi flicks are great. Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Vampyr.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vhy Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 A few that are visually top notch: The Man Who Laughs (1928) Beauty and the Beast (1946) The Tales of Hoffman (1951) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I'm not a big watcher of films but here are two good European films about thieving, try not to cry at the Bicycle Thieves I dare you: (edit: both of these have been mentioned already. carry on.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granty Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 That I've seen... Brief Encounter Rear Window Plan 9 from Outer Space It's a Wonderful Life Double Indemnity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 amazed no one mentioned this (tokyo story): i thought of it but tbh it bored me to tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Obvious ones but still classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest A/D Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 La Jetee was from 1962, one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 U guys... M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Orson Welles was in a movie of Franz Kafka's The Trial - have a look at that, another beautiful nightmare type of film hey i just watched this, and while i love its photography and first scenes, well, i couldn't follow it after it a while, i guess i didn't understand its allusion to the penal system or something? :( i really wanted to dig it like i did the first scenes but i just got lost... the 1st scene on his room and the whole investigation there was top notch!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chunky Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 re kafka aint watched that film in 10 years so my memory could have been playing tricks on me i remember it being very confusing and dream like and i sat there and enjoyed it, the same as with eraserhead but the style of it was more beautiful really want to see that film again to see if it matches what i remember the book was also confusing and afaik it wasnt even fully finished and i think kafkas friend edited the ending chapter and released the book against his wishes after he had died? something like that. the unfinishedness adds to the dreamlike quality imo does anyone know if it's possible to post old youtube films on this site? copyrighted material is not allowed, but are these films actually still in copyright? have a look for the battle of algiers dudes quite a depressing but truthful war film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shit Attack Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Treasure of the sierra madre Ace in the hole Invasion of the body snatchers the Magnificent ambersons (not convinced how good this was but it was interesting as a "lost" film + the follow up to citizen kane ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 the ghost and mrs. muir (1947) isn't the greatest film, but definitely worth a mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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